Hey there! My website blog has been up for just over 1 month now and has recieved a GooglePageRank of 3 in the recent update today! To get higher PR links back to your site, you must mainly backlink from forums, have an account on all social networks like Twitter + Facebook to broaden your audience and finally GET YOUR WEBSITE OUT THERE! This means submitting into at least 5 directories per day, either freely or with an reciprocal and also some blog commenting.

If you do this, you will succeed and it is just a matter of managing your time wisely in order to accumulate the optimum results :)

The issue with blog commenting is that half of the time or may be more than that, your comments are deleted or considered spam. This is inspite of the inherently well written comment that is inline with the post.

I think blog commenting helps, but is a drain on your time and energy.

Contact organizations directly and see if you can provide content for their websites. In exchange, ask for links to your site. For instance, if you're a computer store, you could write articles on how to prevent viruses, or how to improve computer security.

When you say post in 5 directories / day - what kind of directories are you talking about ?

I heard posting in the business type directories gets you banned on Google ?

Looking for advice.

Submitting your website(s) to directories will NOT get you banned. However, when it comes to Google, they suggest that you only submit to established directories that have editorial integrity. In other words, submit to directories that have been around for a long time and actually Reject spammy websites. A directory that links to everyone is a link farm. Google says, don't bother with link farms.

SEO required patience,get high PR cannot be done over night..Try to get links from Good PR sites..As many as you can..Articles,Blogs ,Forums,Social Media Sites are helpful but only those Whose PR is more then your site

Ultimately - i wouldn't worry about Google PageRank. It has absolutely no baring on where your site will appear in Google SERPs. I've seen thousands of cases where pages with lower PageRank appear before pages with higher PageRank in Google search result pages.

you get strong backlinks mainly through Article Submission, Blog Commenting, Forum Posting, and different Social Media Sites. But as already mentioned earlier, you have to be patient and continue following SEO techniques.